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nedhepburn:

inothernews:

Via the New York Daily News:

Looks like Mitt Romney is running for President of the United States of “Amercia.”

In an embarrassing blunder, Romney’s campaign misspelled the word “America” on its new “With Mitt” iPhone app, launched Tuesday.

The app has a transparent skin that allows users to take a photograph and superimpose the slogan “A better Amercia” on the image.

The presumptive Republican nominee is taking heat on the Internet for the error.

“Whew, I hear Mitt’s updating that misspelled Amercia on his app. He’s just going with Untied States now,” read one tweet.

“Does Mitt Romney believe that Obama was born in Keyna,” another tweeter jabbed.

AMERCIA FUCK YEHA.

oh mittens 

(via motherjones)

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siddharthasmama:

dammitjean:

fyeahcap:

ha!

Boom.

accurate.

(via stfuconservatives)

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canisfamiliaris:

Here’s a look at more than a dozen front page stories across the country documenting President Obama’s historic endorsement of marriage equality.

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discoverynews:

President Obama Becomes the First American President to Back Same-Sex Marriage

“I’ve just concluded, for me, personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married,” Obama said in an interview with ABC News.

Obama, who had previously backed strong protections for gay and lesbian couples, said his position had evolved partly after talking to his two daughters Malia and Sasha who had some friends who had same-sex parents.

“It wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective,” Obama said in the interview.

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We’ve been hearing a lot about the war on women, which is real enough. But there’s also a war on the young, which is just as real even if it’s better disguised. And it’s doing immense harm, not just to the young, but to the nation’s future.

Let’s start with some advice Mitt Romney gave to college students during an appearance last week. After denouncing President Obama’s “divisiveness,” the candidate told his audience, “Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.”

The first thing you notice here is, of course, the Romney touch — the distinctive lack of empathy for those who weren’t born into affluent families, who can’t rely on the Bank of Mom and Dad to finance their ambitions. But the rest of the remark is just as bad in its own way.

I mean, “get the education”? And pay for it how? Tuition at public colleges and universities has soared, in part thanks to sharp reductions in state aid. Mr. Romney isn’t proposing anything that would fix that; he is, however, a strong supporter of the Ryan budget plan, which would drastically cut federal student aid, causing roughly a million students to lose their Pell grants.

So how, exactly, are young people from cash-strapped families supposed to “get the education”? Back in March Mr. Romney had the answer: Find the college “that has a little lower price where you can get a good education.” Good luck with that. But I guess it’s divisive to point out that Mr. Romney’s prescriptions are useless for Americans who weren’t born with his advantages.

… What should we do to help America’s young? Basically, the opposite of what Mr. Romney and his friends want. We should be expanding student aid, not slashing it. And we should reverse the de facto austerity policies that are holding back the U.S. economy — the unprecedented cutbacks at the state and local level, which have been hitting education especially hard.

Yes, such a policy reversal would cost money. But refusing to spend that money is foolish and shortsighted even in purely fiscal terms. Remember, the young aren’t just America’s future; they’re the future of the tax base, too.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste; wasting the minds of a whole generation is even more terrible. Let’s stop doing it.

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brooklynmutt:

MSNBC Mistakenly Labels Nicolas Sarkozy A ‘Prostitute’

(Mediaite)

hahaha hahaha oh 

Somehow, firing people with jobs became the Republican strategy for job creation. People who taught our children; policed our streets; picked up our garbage; put out our fires; built and maintained our parks, libraries, and roads for a living wage became the scapegoat for the impoverishment the private sector imposed on workers. Instead of organizing to win back their own living wages and lost benefits, people were convinced that taking away those of government workers would somehow make them better off. Divide and conquer politics. The politics of fear, hate, greed, envy and spite. The race to the bottom. Orchestrated by plutocrats, executed by conservatives, allowed by Democrats.

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unicef:

CAN YOU SEE ME?

Hanadi (age 15) holds her identification card, required in the ‘Seam Zone’ between the Israeli barrier wall and the West Bank’s internationally-recognized border with the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Residents of the zone need special permits and are often detained at military checkpoints. Children must also pass a checkpoint to go to school. “I feel like I’m in prison,” said Hanadi.

Occupied Palestinian Territory 2007 ©UNICEF/ Kate Brooks

http://www.unicef.org

(via fotojournalismus)

(via stfuconservatives)

canisfamiliaris:

Penalties in Muslim Countries/Areas for Being a Gay Male, or for Engaging in Male-Male Sex (from the Economist)

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